I think I am being tested. The meeting last week with Sophie’s team went well, I guess. I shouldn’t say that — it definitely went well, in the way that those meetings often do. Everyone goes around the table and talks about how wonderful Sophie is, lists ways to make her even better, and I […]

Sophie wet her pants at school on the first day of the second week of fifth grade. “Well, accidents happen,” I said to the school nurse when she called to explain why Sophie would be coming home in different clothes. I wasn’t so concerned at first; Sophie almost never wets her pants (I think maybe […]

The principal at Sophie’s school has a bunch of motivational sayings up all over his office — you know, about failure (not an option) and that kind of thing — but my favorite is on a small, square refrigerator magnet stuck to the door frame. Take care of each other. — Robert Louis Stevenson Take […]